By LEONARD GRAY

Managing Editor

LAPLACE — U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu will host a town hall meeting today (Wednesday) in the parish council chambers of the Percy Hebert Building in LaPlace. The meeting starts at 3 p.m. and will be carried live on Time-Warner Cable as well.

The meeting, titled, &#8220Protecting Louisiana: Lessons Learned,” is part of a series Landrieu is conducting throughout Louisiana to promote lessons learned during a recent trip to the Netherlands on flood control and storm protection systems, a tour which began Feb. 20 in Lake Charles.

The tour continued later that same day at the Port of Iberia headquarters in New Iberia, then to the Monroe Civic Center on Feb. 21, followed by a bus tour of the Ouachita Port and the University of Louisiana at Monroe, the Shreveport Rotary Club and at the Whitney Bank in Houma.

Earlier today, Landrieu was scheduled to address the Baton Rouge Rotary Club at 11:30 a.m., then to LaPlace at 3 p.m. and concluding

tomorrow at noon at the Plimsoll Club in the World Trade Center in downtown New Orleans.

One of the primary lessons learned in the Netherlands trip, according to Landrieu’s press office, was &#8220a solid, clear national commitment must be made to flood and water protection, or it will not be possible.”

Landrieu is calling for coastal energy-producing states, such as Louisiana, to receive their fair share of offshore oil and gas revenues, and upon her return to Washington, she plans to introduce bipartisan legislation to that end.